The merged star evolves into a giant star. As the huge photosphere expands, some of the material falls onto the outer ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Astronomers believe that compact stars known as white dwarfs will be among the last remaining objects to persist in an aging universe.

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...